Field Trip Refection

When I went to Haven to Home museum we learned about how life was in the old days for Jews and what they had to do to come to America. Jewish people lived in many places and there was about 28 adults and 8 children that first came to America. All of these people settled in New Amsterdam (New York). Most of the Jews that lived down South believed in slavery and most of the Jews that lived up North didn’t believe in slavery. The Jewish migrating to the U.S. open the doors to a lot of other ethnicities moving to the U.S. This made it so that our country is the diverse country it is today. The most interesting thing that I learned was that one time 20,000 woman decided to protest Kosher Butchers and they took all the meat and threw it in the streets and it resulted in Kosher Butchers lowering their meat prices. 1. The quote that I chose was “If we stayed in Bosnia we would have been killed. Although no one can predict the future, just imagine a seven year-old child wondering if he would be killed or the next day spared in this world we call our home.” I chose this quote because it really touched me to see that in some parts of the world kids aren’t as safe as they are in the U.S and that made just appreciate how safe I feel in my country. 2. I picked an essay that showed the difference between life in the U.S. and life in Afghanistan. This girl says that in Afghanistan, she had to sleep on a concrete floor with hardly any blankets while it was snowing outside and now that she moved to the U.S. she sleeps in a bed with tons of blankets and a heater by her side. I chose this quote because it showed how fortunate I am to never have had to sleep on a concrete floor in the cold. I also liked the way this quote gave me a vivid picture of how things were in her old country. 3. I chose a photo of a Nigerian family that just arrived at the American airport. The picture has one Father and five people that looked like they could be his kids. You can tell that they were immigrants because they were wearing this beautiful foreign clothing. The people look excited to start a new life and also scared because they are in a new country and might not understand what the people around them are talking about. I chose this picture because I thought that it was a good picture that shows what the immigrants felt when they first came to the U.S.